[2008] How To Show Icon On System Tray
Mar 13, 2009I want to make my Form's icon appear on System tray - as long as my application is running [not just when minimizing]. How do I do that?
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Deployment :: Show Program Tray Icon In The System Tray
Jan 3, 2010my program has a tray icon and i want it to show up in the system tray. so i went into my windows notification area and set it to show icon for my app. But when my app update to a new version with clickonce, it will think its a new app and i have to set it again. Is there a way that it will treat all new version as the same program and i dont have to keep setting it?
View 3 RepliesVS 2008 - Use An Icon In The System Tray To Let Interact With A Windows Service
Sep 24, 2009I've seen loads of programs that use an icon in the system tray to let you interact with a windows service that is running on your machine but I am curious as to how this works. As I understand it, unless a service marks itself as 'interactive' then it has no way to communicate with the user's desktop and doing so is discouraged by MS (and even causes an alternate desktop to appear temporarily in Server 2008 in some cases). So I want to try and avoid doing this but I cant think how else I would do it, and even if I marked my service as interactive I'm not too sure how I could actually get it to show a notification icon in the system tray.
I assume I would have to use Windows APIs, unless just using the windows forms NotifyIcon class would work. I considered just having the system tray icon in a totally separate application that just communicates with the service via named pipes or TCP etc but I'm pretty sure this isnt how other programs do it because with most of them if you just kill the process that the service is running in then the icon disappears so it must actually be directly running from the service.
VS 2008 Notify Icon - Button That Will Minimize The Program To The System Tray
Oct 2, 2009I have a button that will Minimize the program to the system tray. How would it to look something like the picture on the bottom when the Notify Icon is clicked once or right clicked?
View 3 RepliesVS 02/03 Exe Icon In Tray Of System?
Feb 28, 2010I want a simple .exe's icon in system tray (with an image) and when user right clicks that it should show some options like
1) add two numbers when user clicks this it should open a running form of addition of my exe.
2) negate 2 numbers Same like above but for negation.
I am using VS 2003 framework 1.1
Click An Icon On The System Tray?
Oct 23, 2009I'm trying to click on an icon that is in the system tray. I'm sure there is API involved,which i'm sure will work. I Was wondering if there's any kind of code already in Visual Basic, that somehow puts them in an array of some sort. Especially with how sometimes windows will only show active icons. Would be a pain to have to click the arrows to show all icons and then find the icon. Which if it's API, would have to be x/y coordinates.Definitely would be different every time.
View 2 RepliesIcon Minimize And Fit In System Tray
Apr 15, 2012I am doing my project in vb.net 2008. When I minimize my running windows application its icon must be minimized and fit in system tray. And when we doing some other works in our system (such as video playing or other working) my windows application must works in background.
View 2 RepliesNotify Icon And System Tray?
Oct 21, 2005I've been successful with this in VB6. The VS2005 notifyicon class is certainly much nicer and much improved.I've implemented a notifyicon and it's working as expected with one exception.
View 10 RepliesCreate A Contextmenu For System Tray Icon Vb?
Aug 27, 2010how to create a contextmenu for system tray icon vb? Where can I find an example of it? I am building a service with a system tray icon to start pause and stop it however I don't seem to be able to display the contextmenu on click event. Do I need a form for the context menu?
View 1 RepliesCreate The Contextmenu Near The System Tray Icon?
Jun 4, 2009how to create the contextmenu near the system tray icon that i've created? the current contextmenu will always "run" to certain position. How to do that? especially the second parameter of the following:
Me.contextMenu1 = New System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenu
Me.menuItem1 = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
Me.menuItem2 = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
Initialize contextMenu1
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Me.contextMenu1.Show(Button1, New Point(0, 0)) .NET not allow the control to be the notifyicon, so i added a button.hOW to make sure that the contextmenu always firm on one position , ie, at the system tray icon that i've created. Once i click on the icon, it will show this contextmenu.
Notify Icon Increasing In System Tray?
Apr 20, 2011I have a application which is written in background worker. Inside the background worker i am creating the multiple threads . The application has one notify icon. When i creating threads the notify icon gets duplicated for each thread. Suppose if i am running three threads means , there are 4 icons in the system tray.
View 3 RepliesVS 2005 - How To Create System Tray Icon
Jan 10, 2010I need a clue where to start: how to create an icon that will show up at bottom right of explorer bar.. maybe I don't what its called. I guess windows named that "system tray icon".
View 3 RepliesCreate An Icon In The System Tray As Status For Num-lock?
Jan 12, 2010I am trying to create an icon in the system tray as status for num-lock, caps-lock, and scroll-lock, because my keyboard that came with my computer does not have status lights on the keyboard, and only on the system tray.
The program however that came with it, does not like to work when I have some games open and stuff, it works usually in IE, and most other programs, but some programs just seem to interfere with it.
I have made a new program on a 1 mili-second timer for the 3 and it seems to work just fine in the application, I was wondering now if I could move that over to the system tray and make it look like the one that came with computer, it has 3 different icons, and the icon changes for on/off and has a tooltip status change on mouse-over showing status of on/off.
Forms :: Place An Application Icon In The System Tray?
Mar 10, 2010To hide my application, I want to place the my Application Icon in the System tray & not onthe Task bar ... but I have both with the following codes:
Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized
NotifyIcon1.Visible = False
Put It Text In Notification Icon In System Tray Area
Dec 23, 2010How do I can put a text (shift the icon image) on notification icon alredy put it on system tray (near clock place) using Visual Basic 2010?
View 3 RepliesInstall An App In Win7 With Icon Showing In System Tray By Default?
Apr 11, 2011I have a custom app which I deploy to my Win7 users, the app sets up a tray icon which is automatically hidden by the OS. The user then has to manually change the settings of the System Tray to always display my app's icon.What can I do when installing my app on Win7 to make the icon show in the System Tray without user-intervention?
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System Tray Icon Not Appearing When Using Multiple Monitors (shell_notifyIcon)?
Aug 9, 2010My program runs and loads an icon into the system tray, the only way to them open the main MDI is to right click on the icon in the system tray and choose an option from the pop up menu shown. This all works nicely when there is only 1 monitor. As soon as you run this program on a computer with 2 monitors the icon does not show in the system tray.What do I need to do to make it work in this situation. I use shell_notifyIcon API
View 1 RepliesWhen Left Clicking Notify Icon On System Tray For Context Menu, Blank Form Shows In Taskbar?
Jul 3, 2010Simply saying I've added an Notify Icon to my project and then added context menu showing up when the left mouse button is pressed. The problem is that with the context menu some blank form is showing in the taskbar. There is no such form within the project.Does anyone know why it may be happening or how to get rid of the effect? I might add that I have other context menu attached for mouse right click button and it works fine, no blank forms and such showing on the taskbar it's just the left mouse button that works that way.Here is the code that I am using to show the menu:(the visible state to false is necessary for the other menus not to pop up with the one i want... unless anyone knows better method)
Private Sub NotifyIcon_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon.Click
If e.Button = MouseButtons.Right Then
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VS 2008 Minimizing To System Tray?
Jun 27, 2009I know how to minmize to systemtray using a button and by the use of a notifyIcon, but i want to minmize to system tray using the minimize button on the title bar of the form. I think it as something to do with the resize event but i dont know what.
View 9 RepliesVS 2008 Running Application In System Tray Only?
May 3, 2010i want to write a program that runs ONLY in system tray, and when i click on it it shows a context menu.. everything i already know, but..
My program shows up in menu, when i click Alt + Tab, or Win + Tab.. A made it invisible, hidden, changed the transparency to 0, but still it shows up..
Notifyicon1.visible = True
NotifyIcon1.Icon = Me.Icon
Me.Hide
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VS 2008 Single Instance System Tray?
Jan 3, 2012A nice quick one I was wondering if anyone know the answer two (was shown a rough way to do this in vb6 but that was a long time ago)I have an application running in the system tray which I want as single instance (and currently have set as single instance)
However if someone double click on on the Desktop Icon or Startmenu Icon etc I want the main menu form to appear (frmMainMenu). Is it possible so that if opening the app when its already running triggers an invent in first instance rather than creating a new instance?
VS 2008 Restore App From System Tray Using Shortcut Keys?
May 26, 2011I'm trying to build an application that when I press a keyboard shortcut, say CTRL + ~, if the window is minimized to the system tray it is displayed.
I have seen a few programs do this and have always wondered how to do this, but haven't had the opportunity to do learn it until now and I really don't know if its something simple or complex.
VS 2008 Start Application Minimize In System Tray
Mar 29, 2012I've created one project where I want to start application directly minimize in system tray,it is there but I can see it also in taskbar. [code]
View 5 RepliesNotify Icon/Minimize To Tray?
Jun 13, 2010recently been working on an application and added a minimize to tray feature. An update to the program made it so I could run multiple instances of the application without them interfering with each other. Which is great and what I had planned. BUT now when more than 1 instance of the application is running I have two notify(tray)icons on the system tray.My question is how, if its even possible, would I make both minimize into the same tray icon and just add a contextmenuitem to the right click menu (listing the name of the windows that are minimized). I hope thats not too confusing.I know how to add the contextmenuitems that won't be an issue once I can figure out how to get the windowstate of the other instance of the application.
instance1\..................................................._open instance1.windowcaption
...............\_______trayicon>contextmenu__/__open instance2.windowcaption
.............../................................................\___close all instances
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How To Make Context Menu And Icon On Tray Bar
Dec 29, 2009I'm interested in name of this control:[URL]..What's the name of this control, how to make context menu and icon on tray bar?
I think it's very simple, but I couldn't find this.
VS 2008 Messagebox.show / How To Have A Icon
Mar 8, 2011My converter shows the answer using the message box.i want to have a icon on the message box and a title at this top bar. [code] what's the code for the messagebox.show to have a icon or a sign, a title bar, and some text.. ??
View 4 RepliesDynamically Change The Click Event Of Tray Icon?
Apr 23, 2010I'm trying to dynamically change the click event of my tray icon balloon and remove it in the handler. This is the line in the handler:
VB.NET
RemoveHandler TrayIcon.BalloonTipClicked, AddressOf UpdateSite
This is the warning I get:
Quote:
The 'AddressOf' expression has no effect in this context because the method argument to 'AddressOf' requires a relaxed conversion to the delegate type of the event. Assign the 'AddressOf' expression to a variable, and use the variable to add or remove the method as the handler.
How can I move AddressOf into a variable and reference that in RemoveHandler? I can't find out how to declare a delegate.
Place A Custom Icon In A Tray Notification Balloon?
Apr 4, 2012I am trying to place a custom icon in a tray notification balloon, such as when you install updates from Windows Update, it shows a balloon in the tray with a custom icon.
How can I do this in VB.net?
VS 2008 : Hide The Desktop Icon Then Show It Again?
Apr 21, 2009is there a way to hide the desktop icon then show it again?
View 1 RepliesIDE :: Toolstrip Dialog Objects Do Not Appear In Component Tray In Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional On A Windows 7 System
Oct 5, 2011I am running Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional on a Windows 7 system.While working on a visual basic exercise in chapter 4 of the Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Step by Step book on the MyMenu program I added a Toolstrip to my form and then I was trying to perform the add OpenFileDialog and ColorDialog controls to the component tray as described at the bottom of page 111 under Using Dialog Box Controls. I could never get the controls to appear in the component tray as instructed in the book.
I added a toolstrip to the form. According to my instructions I should be able to click on the Open file icon on the toolstrip to select it and then click anywhere else on the form. When I do that, the OpenFileDialog should appear on the component tray where I can then select it to enter code. This however does not happen.The only way I was able to get them to appear in the component tray was by opening the Menu program supplied on the DVD under chapter 4, selecting both of the above controls on the component tray, right clicking and then press copy. I then closed the Menu program and opened the MyMenu program that I created and then I was able to paste the two object controls to the component tray.
I went back to the original Menu program to see if I was able to place any other controls on the component tray by following the instructions in the book but was not able to. I also tried the same thing with MyMenu and it also still would not work.I have been unable to find anything that might explain why the component tray does not work as explained. Perhaps there is some setting somewhere that needs changed, but all searches have been unsuccessful.
PS. I have entered this on one of the other MicroSoft forums and although it has gotten multiple views I have not yet received any feedback.I also get the following error: Cannot add component of type 'ToolStripButton' to container of type 'form'.